Quick introduction to bubbles

BobaBoard’s volunteers collaborate using a sociocratic concept called “circles”. Since this is BOBAboard, however, we opted to call our circles “bubbles” 😉

Each bubble has its own aim (what the bubble exists to do) and its own domain (where the bubble has authority to make decisions and take action.)

List of BobaBoard’s Current Bubbles

BobaBoard currently has the following bubbles:

Steering Roadmappening Strategy Bubble

Aim: Bring together, guide, and support volunteers to collaboratively build a modern open-source community social platform that caters to the needs of, and welcomes the contributions of, queer/kinky/fannish people by prioritizing secure interaction within size-limited intentional communities. (Consented to on 9/29/24 for a one-year term.)

Domain: All decisions relating to high-level priorities for the organization. Any decisions outside the domains of the more specialized bubble. Adjudication of other bubbles’ domains if there is ever confusion over who is responsible for what.

Not sure whose job it is?

The buck stops with Steering! If you don’t know which bubble should handle something, or whether your bubble is ALLOWED to handle something, you can ask Steering to sort it out.

Boba Builders Bubble (“B^3”)

Aim: Build and maintain an accessible, self-hostable, modular codebase for a modern open-source community social platform that caters to the needs of, and welcomes the contributions of, its queer/kinky/fannish userbase by prioritizing secure interaction within size-limited intentional communities (Realms). (Consented to on 7/14/24 for a one-year term.)

Domain: All decisions and tasks related to engineering BobaBoard the social platform.
e.g., writing and approving code, picking a new web framework, collecting user feedback on UI/UX changes

Documentation Bubble

Aim: Collect, create, edit, review, and publish documentation related to all policies and other necessary knowledge involved in the development, maintenance, and support of BobaBoard and its intersection with the wider Fujoverse. (Proposed by Steering Bubble on 10/30/24, awaiting consent from Documentation Bubble members)

Domain: All decisions and tasks related to BobaBoard documentation.
e.g., deciding how articles should be styled, working with a B^3 member to document an engineering procedure, reorganizing existing articles into more logical groups

Volunteering Bubble

Aim: Recruit, onboard, document, and support volunteers and their engagement within the wider BobaBoard organization and any intersecting parts of the FujoVerse.

Domain: All decisions and tasks related to BobaBoard in its capacity as a workplace. (Proposed by Steering Bubble on 10/30/24, awaiting consent from Volunteering Bubble members) e.g., writing a Volunteer Code of Conduct, making outreach posts on social media to attract new recruits, planning groupwatches or other community events